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The schedule was a good idea on paper but it took longer to run. They were taking more brakes waiting for racers then they should have. All they needed to do with the evening is go s/st s/g s/c the one extra class would allow for the program to go smoother and stll be fast paced. It would acomplish the same goal because s/st drivers aren't allowed to race 2 classes.

The The Stock and Super Stock guys could have had their three rounds with comp in between the pro sessions. That would allow for those cars to cool off. We run a dragster and our car was warm enough I felt bad for any of the guys that had to race heads up!

Hey at leaset it sounded as if it was an attempt to be better to the racers but just needs tweaked.

Brian Phillips JR

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That's funny, that's almost exactly what I suggested to Alan: make it at least three classes, so you have one running, one getting up there ready to go, and one in the pits recovering. Maybe they'll listen.

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Chris Williams said;

"That's funny, that's almost exactly what I suggested to Alan: make it at least three classes, so you have one running, one getting up there ready to go, and one in the pits recovering. Maybe they'll listen."

Now there is a great idea!

Mike Ferstl
SG SR 6091

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I am just happy to wake up in the mornings and still know I can go drag racing:)

BB just happy to be alive.

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Amen

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Agree!

For anyone who hasn't run at Pacific, it really is bad for getting from the return road, through the pits, back to the staging lanes.

Not sure if they still do it this way at Sonoma, but it used to be a long trip along the road course to get back too. The first few years of that race they had Sportsman classes take a left turn return road which puts you on the road course (which they had us pitted on). The saving grace was that there were no spectators to contend with to get back to your pits. I remember running divisional races there when they had us take the right side return road, it was a much shorter trip. I think I remember one national there when they made us take the right side in one of the later rounds so we could pass the scales, that confused me since I had no clue how to get back to my pit from there!

Regards,

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And in a dragster the left-hander from the road course into the staging lanes is quite a PITA.

We've been to Pacific a number of times, and with a smaller event, everyone is pitted up above, where it's now almost all paved, and getting to/from the staging lanes is little more than a big sweeper on the road course. Very nice.

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..................Why aren't super street racers allowed to race in two different classes??

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I have been told it is because s/st is entry level.